Prue Leith heads to Cambridge and tells us about her embarrassing moment cooking lobster for royalty

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I think I must have bunked off on the day that they taught us what to do with lobsters,” says Prue. Prue Leith is coming to the Cambridge Corn ExchangePrue says: “It’s because I’m the kind of cook that can’t cook for two. So I went to David and said, Look, I’m really sorry but your neighbours are really offended by your lack of a shirt and top and jacket. So I read for some really heavyweight newspapers, always a weekly column and then I towards the end of that time in the 80s, I thought I really, really want to write a novel. it never occurred to me that I’ve been discriminated against.”Prue Leith: Nothing in Moderation, Friday March 24 at Cambridge Corn Exchange.
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